To your original question: I sincerely hope so! I would not want to put it as extreme as to state that is the ONLY reason I'm still hanging in here, but I surely hope some seeds will survive. I promise I'll do my very best to take care of them after that, and really develop to the full the skills I made use of before becoming a Witness.
TheOldHippie
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Will they grow Hemp in that Paradise garden?
by kenpodragon ini was thinking today about that paradise garden the witness always pictured.
i remember all those happy blank faces, with the rosy cheeks and content look.
they were all smiling eating a apple, petting a lion, and running around the trees.
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DF / DA and just "falling away"
by Bosho ini have always wondered why a person can sin and not be repentant (the reason they give for df) or can disassociate oneself and the congregation is to "shun them" but.... .
someone can be a baptised witness and not go for several months start doing things that would be considered a disfellowshipping offense (ie smoking etc) but the congregation doesn't have to "shun them".
surely this is a double standard.
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TheOldHippie
If such a thing is brought to the mind of the elders, though, congregational action will be taken. We just had a case here, where a person, two years absent, was da'ed because of political participation.
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The Glory Days Are Over
by Farkel inthere is no doubt in my mind that the glory days of jehovah's witnesses are over.
from my knowledge and experience with wt history, i would define the glory days as the decades of the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's.
with knorr's great expansionary vision and discipline, dubs in the 1950's became a "somebody" in the 1950's.
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TheOldHippie
Please don't make me cry, Farkel - I'm a sensitive guy, with not many people to talk with ............
And I am sending you an e-mail ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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If rich, what would you do?
by larc inif you had so much money that you didn't have to work, how would you spend your time?
i will be back later to see what you have to say.
i am going to bed, having been up after my bed time.
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TheOldHippie
On the beach of a Canary Island, sipping good wine, reading good books and just let the years roll on by .......
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Shunned - a cycle of pain and hate
by refiners fire inguess what?
shunning isnt just a dub problem, it goes on out in the" world "too.
its used as a weapon to punish and hurt people.
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TheOldHippie
You are in no need to make up something like this, my friend - I just thought that perhaps there was some other underlying story as well.
One does not know if one is to laugh or cry, and here, at the top of the world, it is just as bad:
When we built our house, the guy who was to become our neighbour built his, too, at the same time. Our houses are built in a slope, and I am "on top of him". In the building period, things were rather messy outside, and it was raining heavily at times, so mud from our future garden slid down to his construction site, not much, but a few buckets full. So what did he do? He went to the police and reported us for letting water and soil and mud enter his ground! I pointed out to the police - and him - that during construction periods - and also later - water was rarely running uphill, but would have to run downhill, as he was below us. No way, he filed us again. After a while, I constructed a wall to prevent this rather natural event, and as I built it, he and his wife walked beside me every minute, to make sure I did not step on his ground during the carrying of stones and cement. As I once asked his wife please to remove her foot from MY property (yep, I was getting rather tense, too .....), he again filed me with the police for violent threats againsthis wife. One night, I was awakened by strange sounds. It was raining, and as I looked out of the bedroom window at 4 in the morning, there he was, throwing the small pebbles that had fallen from my property down on his, back into my garden.
It was the 7th place he had lived for 10 years - his daughter was in the 4th grade at school and had been at 5 schools. Next year, he moved and built a new house somewhere else.
North or South - lunatics everywhere.
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War On Terrorism
by Monster inbefore going to bed i thought i would ask this question.
mary roberson said, america is using the war on terror as an excuse to trample on other nations that are troublesome to us.
how many agree with her?.
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TheOldHippie
Mary Robinson was the president of Ireland, and later head of the UN refugee organization, and I agree with her.
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9-1-02 wt lie
by johnny cip inon page 25 9-1-2002 wt para 1 "in the summer of 1929, when i was 2 years old, something wonderful happened to my fatrher, matthew allen.
he optained the booklet millions now living will never die!
----------- dad exclaimed this is the greatest thing i ever read!
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TheOldHippie
I think there was a second edition published and offered, wherein certain paragraphs had been omitted, just as was done with the Harp book.
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Shunned - a cycle of pain and hate
by refiners fire inguess what?
shunning isnt just a dub problem, it goes on out in the" world "too.
its used as a weapon to punish and hurt people.
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TheOldHippie
It does; I do not quite know if this is a "true story", or if you are writing this as some kind of a symbolized story of what is going on within certain here-not-mentioned organizations or groups, but no matter what it is, you have my full sympathy. I don't deny that shunning in some rare instances might produce some sort of "cleansing" and fresh starts, but en masse, shunning stinks. It only produces very, very hurt feelings and very toughs attempts of starting anew.
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Greg Stafford
by RR ini got this on a forum.
i left the name out, but the information is good.
stafford's assisting bro.
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TheOldHippie
I think brother Stafford has embarked on one tough journey, and I sincerely hope he'll reach ashore safely. His "Three Dissertations" is a great work in summing up pros and cons in the areas of sensitive questions, and I hope people will be able to look behind the arguments, to see what he is really trying to do or wishing for. He is not one who with a light pen says "yes" to everything, and he is not one who critizises for the sake of critisism, neither. He wants a true, Bible-based organization and congregation, where abuse of power and speculations have been put aside, and there is respect and love and the right to decide for oneself and stand for that. I deeply respect the brother, but he is carrying out some mighty tough acts of balancing work.
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The Glory Days Are Over
by Farkel inthere is no doubt in my mind that the glory days of jehovah's witnesses are over.
from my knowledge and experience with wt history, i would define the glory days as the decades of the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's.
with knorr's great expansionary vision and discipline, dubs in the 1950's became a "somebody" in the 1950's.
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Just want to say "thanks", Farkel ...............